I found YouTube’s hidden tap-and-hold shortcut — now I can’t watch without it
TL;DR A writer discovered a little-known YouTube gesture that plays videos at double speed while the screen is held. The…
Daily Bottled-Water Drinkers Swallow About 90,000 Extra Microplastic Particles
TL;DR New reporting finds that people who drink bottled water every day ingest tens of thousands more microplastic particles annually…
Best Plant-Based Meal Delivery Services and Kits of 2025 — Reviewed
TL;DR WIRED tested a range of plant-based meal kits and prepared-meal services in 2025 and singled out top picks for…
Experimenting with Separating Identity, Memory and Tools: RCRDBL Relay
TL;DR A page on rcrdbl.com presents a brief, terminal-style output referencing an experiment titled 'An experiment in separating identity, memory,…
Gboard’s hidden Undo button recently fixed my biggest Android typing fear
TL;DR A writer who avoids long-form typing on phones says Gboard’s recently added Undo button removed his biggest worry: accidental…
Billion-Dollar Data Centers Are Taking Over the World — The AI Footprint Grows
TL;DR Wired reports that an international buildout of costly data centers is accelerating as companies race for AI advantage. The…
C++ says “We have try…finally at home” — destructors handle cleanup
TL;DR Many modern languages offer a finally clause to run cleanup when control leaves a block; C++ provides the same…
Growing Up in ‘404 Not Found’: Life in China’s Secret Nuclear City
TL;DR A memoir recounts childhood in Factory 404, a classified nuclear industrial town built in the Gobi Desert in 1958.…
Global Trade Is Shifting: The Dollar’s Era of Dominance May Be Ending
TL;DR A Wired piece by Keyu Jin argues that 2026 will mark the start of measurable erosion in the US…
C++ provides try-finally behavior via destructors, not a finally clause
TL;DR C++ lacks a dedicated finally clause; instead, developers rely on destructors to run cleanup when control leaves a scope.…